I think it is also time to remember that the transition between "child" and "adult" does not happen in the magic of the 18th birthday, but is a process. An 19 year old having a 17 year old girlfriend is perfectly normal, and if they fancy to take nude pictures of each other I find it ridiculous to consider this child porn.
The real sick thing about this is this so called "age of consent". minors are NOT allowed to consent to anything by law. age of consent means your parents are allowed to consent. If you 18, and six months older than your 17 year old girlfriend, sleeping with her is only OK if her parents allow it, otherwise they can press charges. Same with labor laws. They can litteraly force you into sex/work, but you cannot make the choice yourself? All in the name of "protecting the children".
Many states also have exceptions for marriage. While a 15 year old sleeping with a 35 year old will land the 35 year old in jail, unless of course they are married. Then its legal. No one questions the abilities of being able to marry a child.
If you've ever stumbled onto CP through any of the random image polling scripts from the image sites, what you see can be soul crushing.
I agree. If the FBI ever searches your computer the 10 years of prison you will get for having such images in your browser's cache will be just as soul crushing. The laws are very explicit in there is no "accidental circumstances" with child porn laws. Your just as guilty in the eyes of the law as a hardcore pedophile.
"Of course it can. "The law" is not a computer program, it's interpreted by people"
As we've seen earlier, the courts often interpret laws in ways which boggle the mind. The court system and government in general is operated by people who are willfully ignorant of technology and are their granted positions by politicians who behave like children. Most people understand that if the law has a potential to be abused, it will, to the maximum extent possible. Did I mention that 99.99% of all judges are ex-lawyers? Do you trust this group of entitled scum to be in the slightest bit fair?
Of course the best part of this knee-jerk lynch mob mentality is that everyone who is even slightly opposed or even so much as hesitant of competing to take the position to its most logical "extreme", is a traitor to the cause and sympathizer to the enemy.
While I certainly argue that molesting children is vile, I fail to see how the extreme sentencing, draconian statues(offender registry list, and lifetime of harassment, intimidation, and disenfranchisement that comes with it), for the sole crime of possessing image files on a computer will stop child molesters, or is in any shape or form the sort of justice a free society seeks. None of them actually touched a child.
your argument is everyone not in the lynch mob supports child molesting. That argument is just as insane as the laws themselves. How many good men rot in prison for this madness? There is a post a few back that describes the all too common debacle of "clicking on a wrong ling somewhere" and winding up with serious amounts of jail time you won't get for raping someone in real life.
I agree,child abuse is terrible, and disgusting, I'd NEVER be for it.
But after SOPA, PIPA, the NDAA, the very real infiltration and setting up of anti-government protesters to do violent crimes to solicit funds from congress. and the very typical "smash-fly-with-hammer" sort of mentality US authorities have had for the past 50-60 years, I'm more terrified of the FBI using this as an excuse to get techies to help them break anonymity like tor for needed to keep dissidents from being safe.
Then once you find a way to bring down tor and darknets, or at least unmask their users, you open up Pandora's Box. It will only be a matter of time before China, Iran, Russia, etc... find out the same techniques. Do you want speech and expression WORLDWIDE controlled by the heads of nation states? In this light child molesters are small fish.
While I support the FBI in hunting down child molesters, I see this is nothing but a method of slandering the reputation of TOR to discourage use, and to justify censorship. They are going to equate anyone who believes in free speech now with child molesters.
all I am asking is that one desktop make an "expert/nerd/hacker" mode, and then a seperate "novice/retard/n00b" mode. It could be the same desktop, with enough customizations to just change some settings.
or at least two desktops co-ordinate with eachother, that one becomes the advanced desktop, and one becomes the noob desktop.
mostly true except and obviously obscure exception
hildon desktop on the the n900 lets you run more than 1 terminal.
Speaking of hildon, if gnome 3 looks familiary, its because they both use the same WM, clutter.
This is further proof that corporate culture doesn't attract top talent. Conformity, rigid hiearchy, and no space for free thinking don't inspire problem solves, or attract those who think outside the box. i.e. thoose needed to stay ontop of the ball in an ever changing world/economy
watching the rest of this half-assed video, I was more terrified by the mouthbreather on vocals, recycled beats, and what has to be the worst synth-pop song ever performed. All and all I am not suprised it was made by microsoft. They should have branded it "windows", threatened to sue the videographer for copyright infrigement and called all their critics "communists" and "un-America".
If this is true to microsoft standards, the finnished song which is decent will show up in a bugfix with version 2, 3 years from now.
but there is gnash, which works supprisingly well. does morphOS have an official gnash port, or will it need to be ported. Hrmm, doing free work for a propreiatary operating system.
when you use the terms "obscure, obsolete, or arcane hardware", and "support modern relatively mainstream software", debian comes to mind. If your using something else, you should at least compare it to debian,
so we are going to pay money for a proprietary system only so we can put time and effort into porting wireless.
its an indication its not feature complete. Is there any reason to go with morphOS over debian on PPC?
Once you'd stated your willing to do code work, you might as well go with an open system. It will make your life as a coder easier(more straight coding, less "hacking"), and you'll get the same results, with less money effort.
Its Bill's attempt to buy a legacy he doesn't deserve built on the backs of those he tried holding down. Both Gates and Jobs have in commonality that they were shrewd businessmen. Gates was able to sell substandard products by ruthlessly eliminating the competition through intimidation, threats, and other underhanded tricks. Jobs was able to re-sell other people's idea's as his, by attaching an attractive case and via-able brand name. Steve Jobs brought computers out of infastructure, and into the consumer land of fashion accessory. Another name brand status symbol to the likes of BMW, ralph lauren, aeropostale, porsche, etc.
Most major ideas and concepts for computing came from the F/OSS community, which spent virtually little effort marketing, and most of the effort doing.
Like Thomas Edison before them, both men did more to hold back technology than to advance it, but with the money he made he was able to write himself into history as a brilliant mind, when in reality he was a 2-bit thug.
forgot to mention than on most ARM based devices even more so, because when they are not working as hard they scale down their clocks enormously (like 1/3 - 1/4th max) and with it their power.
The faster a task is completed, the less time a mobile CPU will spend at top speed, using full power.
Jets use a high grade version of diesel known as JP-8, which like diesel has a very high resistance to detonation. Hence why most military vehicles use it. Its harder to be ignited with bullets and explosions common in war.
Then we have explosive material C-4 which is stable as a rock and extremely hard to set off, which is great for soliders who need to carry it in a ruck suck. the blasting caps that are used to set C-4 off have a much much mucher lower resistance to detonation, yet lower yieid.
explosion potential(total potential amount for energy from explosion) and reactivty of explosives are two diffrent unrelated measures.
Hydrogen is known to "just go boom" at lot. Gasoline and Diesel less so.
Its not profitable to make devices anymore. The real money is in patent trolling. Technicolor decides it no longer wants to contribute to society, just leech of those who do.
While apple and google might fend them off, people like this make it IMPOSSIBLE for small time inventors, and small companies to get a foothold.
The only solution is reform intellectual property laws to make them harder to enforce, far more simple, and otherwise tweaked to prevent patent trolling.
The achievement would be downplayed.
Then some "well respected"(read con-artist) 40-something would claim he found it first and will sue.
about a month or two later the kid will be reprimanded in school, and we'll see him washed up at 19 struggling to fit in with the Marine Corps.
this is common faire in the US.
When I was in high school, we held a mock election like every other school. We were instructed to vote "democrat" OR "republican", one third of the school wrote in "ralph nader" instead, but they publicly annouced on the loudspeaker that it was not acceptable to vote for a third party so the votes would be thrown out, and students reprimanded.
But this was some time ago, when both major parties where amicable enough publicly to tolerate their each other's existance. It seems today both sides favor a single party state wtih two competing narratives
How many people regularlly work on GNU, the linux kernel, apache webserver, and the core of stable well used programs around linux as well as the kernel. Plenty, probably thousands.
How many people does microsoft have maintaining the windows kernel, and the rest of the operating system?
Now, the more people use windows or any other operating system, the bigger the payout for writing malware is. There are also more programmers for it, and with it, more hackers, and more people looking for bugs. But when you have open source, the hacker thing works both ways. At least some hackers will contribute back bugfixes for bugs they find. The more people use linux, the more of them will be hackers, and will add to the pool of people fixing bugs proportionally. especially if these people are already programmers.
When microsoft wants to expand the amount of people working on windows, it has to hire them, adding to cost. Putting the time and effort commercially that gets put into your typical distro would be cost prohibitive for closed source, single entity paying programmers.(as opposed to many companies paying many people like linux). Then we have the fact Microsoft is not known for really giving a shit about quality either. Infact the inverse has been said time and time again. They put in as little effort as humanely possible.
Oh, and in linux and from what I can tell gnu, there are no radical overhauls to the system. There are only incremental changes. Compare that to windows who without exception have had massive *.0 problems with every operating system as long as I can remember. The term "microsoft model" has been coined of any company that makes users pay to beta test. Lets see:
Windows 95 was unstable until version c
so was 98 until second edition.
millienium edition was so bad it was pulled before it got that far.
Windows XP was worthless until SP2(SP3 is awesome though, released almost upon obsolescence.)
Now windows 7 comes doing little more than fixing vista's problems.
They are not diffrent than the crazies of any other reliegon and its time the outside world recognize them as such, and its time the mainstream jewish community stops coddling this cult. At very least they need to stop telling the outside world especially the internet how fucked up we are. They are far worse than any of us.
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I think it is also time to remember that the transition between "child" and "adult" does not happen in the magic of the 18th birthday, but is a process. An 19 year old having a 17 year old girlfriend is perfectly normal, and if they fancy to take nude pictures of each other I find it ridiculous to consider this child porn.
The real sick thing about this is this so called "age of consent". minors are NOT allowed to consent to anything by law. age of consent means your parents are allowed to consent. If you 18, and six months older than your 17 year old girlfriend, sleeping with her is only OK if her parents allow it, otherwise they can press charges. Same with labor laws. They can litteraly force you into sex/work, but you cannot make the choice yourself? All in the name of "protecting the children". Many states also have exceptions for marriage. While a 15 year old sleeping with a 35 year old will land the 35 year old in jail, unless of course they are married. Then its legal. No one questions the abilities of being able to marry a child.
If you've ever stumbled onto CP through any of the random image polling scripts from the image sites, what you see can be soul crushing.
I agree. If the FBI ever searches your computer the 10 years of prison you will get for having such images in your browser's cache will be just as soul crushing. The laws are very explicit in there is no "accidental circumstances" with child porn laws. Your just as guilty in the eyes of the law as a hardcore pedophile.
As we've seen earlier, the courts often interpret laws in ways which boggle the mind. The court system and government in general is operated by people who are willfully ignorant of technology and are their granted positions by politicians who behave like children. Most people understand that if the law has a potential to be abused, it will, to the maximum extent possible. Did I mention that 99.99% of all judges are ex-lawyers? Do you trust this group of entitled scum to be in the slightest bit fair?
Of course the best part of this knee-jerk lynch mob mentality is that everyone who is even slightly opposed or even so much as hesitant of competing to take the position to its most logical "extreme", is a traitor to the cause and sympathizer to the enemy.
While I certainly argue that molesting children is vile, I fail to see how the extreme sentencing, draconian statues(offender registry list, and lifetime of harassment, intimidation, and disenfranchisement that comes with it), for the sole crime of possessing image files on a computer will stop child molesters, or is in any shape or form the sort of justice a free society seeks. None of them actually touched a child.
your argument is everyone not in the lynch mob supports child molesting. That argument is just as insane as the laws themselves. How many good men rot in prison for this madness? There is a post a few back that describes the all too common debacle of "clicking on a wrong ling somewhere" and winding up with serious amounts of jail time you won't get for raping someone in real life.
unless your a celebrity, and then its the puritanical backwards American legal system oppressing you.
But after SOPA, PIPA, the NDAA, the very real infiltration and setting up of anti-government protesters to do violent crimes to solicit funds from congress. and the very typical "smash-fly-with-hammer" sort of mentality US authorities have had for the past 50-60 years, I'm more terrified of the FBI using this as an excuse to get techies to help them break anonymity like tor for needed to keep dissidents from being safe.
Then once you find a way to bring down tor and darknets, or at least unmask their users, you open up Pandora's Box. It will only be a matter of time before China, Iran, Russia, etc... find out the same techniques. Do you want speech and expression WORLDWIDE controlled by the heads of nation states? In this light child molesters are small fish.
While I support the FBI in hunting down child molesters, I see this is nothing but a method of slandering the reputation of TOR to discourage use, and to justify censorship. They are going to equate anyone who believes in free speech now with child molesters.
all I am asking is that one desktop make an "expert/nerd/hacker" mode, and then a seperate "novice/retard/n00b" mode. It could be the same desktop, with enough customizations to just change some settings. or at least two desktops co-ordinate with eachother, that one becomes the advanced desktop, and one becomes the noob desktop.
mostly true except and obviously obscure exception hildon desktop on the the n900 lets you run more than 1 terminal. Speaking of hildon, if gnome 3 looks familiary, its because they both use the same WM, clutter.
or even make an official API/ABI for mods, allowed on one server, disallowed on the other.
This is further proof that corporate culture doesn't attract top talent. Conformity, rigid hiearchy, and no space for free thinking don't inspire problem solves, or attract those who think outside the box. i.e. thoose needed to stay ontop of the ball in an ever changing world/economy
If this is true to microsoft standards, the finnished song which is decent will show up in a bugfix with version 2, 3 years from now.
"The 4xx class of status code is intended for cases in which the client seems to have erred."' might be so, but I think http 457 might be approriate.
but there is gnash, which works supprisingly well. does morphOS have an official gnash port, or will it need to be ported. Hrmm, doing free work for a propreiatary operating system. when you use the terms "obscure, obsolete, or arcane hardware", and "support modern relatively mainstream software", debian comes to mind. If your using something else, you should at least compare it to debian,
so we are going to pay money for a proprietary system only so we can put time and effort into porting wireless. its an indication its not feature complete. Is there any reason to go with morphOS over debian on PPC? Once you'd stated your willing to do code work, you might as well go with an open system. It will make your life as a coder easier(more straight coding, less "hacking"), and you'll get the same results, with less money effort.
Most major ideas and concepts for computing came from the F/OSS community, which spent virtually little effort marketing, and most of the effort doing.
Like Thomas Edison before them, both men did more to hold back technology than to advance it, but with the money he made he was able to write himself into history as a brilliant mind, when in reality he was a 2-bit thug.
forgot to mention than on most ARM based devices even more so, because when they are not working as hard they scale down their clocks enormously (like 1/3 - 1/4th max) and with it their power. The faster a task is completed, the less time a mobile CPU will spend at top speed, using full power.
but hey, its politically correct now because its "enviromentalist".
California uber alles indeed. oh, its related. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8UlY8eXCk&feature=related
Jets use a high grade version of diesel known as JP-8, which like diesel has a very high resistance to detonation. Hence why most military vehicles use it. Its harder to be ignited with bullets and explosions common in war.
Then we have explosive material C-4 which is stable as a rock and extremely hard to set off, which is great for soliders who need to carry it in a ruck suck. the blasting caps that are used to set C-4 off have a much much mucher lower resistance to detonation, yet lower yieid.
explosion potential(total potential amount for energy from explosion) and reactivty of explosives are two diffrent unrelated measures. Hydrogen is known to "just go boom" at lot. Gasoline and Diesel less so.
this.
While apple and google might fend them off, people like this make it IMPOSSIBLE for small time inventors, and small companies to get a foothold.
The only solution is reform intellectual property laws to make them harder to enforce, far more simple, and otherwise tweaked to prevent patent trolling.
The achievement would be downplayed. Then some "well respected"(read con-artist) 40-something would claim he found it first and will sue. about a month or two later the kid will be reprimanded in school, and we'll see him washed up at 19 struggling to fit in with the Marine Corps.
this is common faire in the US. When I was in high school, we held a mock election like every other school. We were instructed to vote "democrat" OR "republican", one third of the school wrote in "ralph nader" instead, but they publicly annouced on the loudspeaker that it was not acceptable to vote for a third party so the votes would be thrown out, and students reprimanded. But this was some time ago, when both major parties where amicable enough publicly to tolerate their each other's existance. It seems today both sides favor a single party state wtih two competing narratives
How many people regularlly work on GNU, the linux kernel, apache webserver, and the core of stable well used programs around linux as well as the kernel. Plenty, probably thousands.
How many people does microsoft have maintaining the windows kernel, and the rest of the operating system?
Now, the more people use windows or any other operating system, the bigger the payout for writing malware is. There are also more programmers for it, and with it, more hackers, and more people looking for bugs. But when you have open source, the hacker thing works both ways. At least some hackers will contribute back bugfixes for bugs they find. The more people use linux, the more of them will be hackers, and will add to the pool of people fixing bugs proportionally. especially if these people are already programmers.
When microsoft wants to expand the amount of people working on windows, it has to hire them, adding to cost. Putting the time and effort commercially that gets put into your typical distro would be cost prohibitive for closed source, single entity paying programmers.(as opposed to many companies paying many people like linux). Then we have the fact Microsoft is not known for really giving a shit about quality either. Infact the inverse has been said time and time again. They put in as little effort as humanely possible.
Oh, and in linux and from what I can tell gnu, there are no radical overhauls to the system. There are only incremental changes. Compare that to windows who without exception have had massive *.0 problems with every operating system as long as I can remember. The term "microsoft model" has been coined of any company that makes users pay to beta test. Lets see:
Windows 95 was unstable until version c
so was 98 until second edition.
millienium edition was so bad it was pulled before it got that far.
Windows XP was worthless until SP2(SP3 is awesome though, released almost upon obsolescence.)
Now windows 7 comes doing little more than fixing vista's problems.
anyone from NYC from last generation knows this.
Given that christianity came frome judaism its conceviable the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
They are nothing more than a mid 17th century cult that survived.
They treat their women like shit.
They refuse to buy "non-kosher" soap, which is really expensive so they bathe irregularlly
They are really nasty and disrespectful to outsiders. They've been known to attack outsiders depending on locale.
They use legal tricks to avoid paying taxes, like making all of their houses, "places of worship", which defund local services.
They've been known to settle scores with eachother with violence.
In Brooklyn there was a major scam where the Rabbis were telling people NOT to go to the cops with child molestation cases. The Rabbi bought out the district attorney. http://www.topix.net/city/brooklyn-ny/2012/05/da-denies-hes-soft-on-pedophiles-in-orthodox-jewish-brooklyn
They are not diffrent than the crazies of any other reliegon and its time the outside world recognize them as such, and its time the mainstream jewish community stops coddling this cult. At very least they need to stop telling the outside world especially the internet how fucked up we are. They are far worse than any of us.
I was a cover for microsoft funded mole to leave and shred documents under some cover of credibility. Don't believe me?
http://openleaks.org/ - hasn't been touched since 2010 and their security certificate has expiried.